TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A sentence on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran first girl Rosa Elena Bonilla de Lobo to 14 years in prison for corruption, at which point Bonilla was convicted.
Bonilla will be able to appeal the conviction within 20 days, court spokesman Carlos Silva said.
The first time, Bonilla convicted and sentenced to 58 years in prison, but the sentence was overturned due to inconsistencies in the process. She tried again in March and convicted her of fraud and embezzlement.
She embezzled more than a million dollars from the public budget between 2010 and 2014, when her husband Porfirio Lobo was president. Last year, the U. S. government barred former President Lobo from entering the country over drug trafficking allegations.
In July, Bonilla and Lobo’s 23-year-old son, Said Omar Lobo Bonilla, was killed along with 3 other people when they were ambushed by gunmen leaving a club in the capital.
Bonilla’s personal secretary, Saul Escobar, was also sentenced Wednesday to seven years and 3 months in prison for fraud.